Quotes About Self-assertion

Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.

Please don't try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

On the day we moved from her house, Mother liberated me by letting me know she was on my side. I realized that I had grown close to her and that she had liberated me. She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, "I'm with you, kid.

I got my own back.

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave

sé la heroína de tu vida, no la víctima. —NORA EPHRON

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

Clearly, men need new models for self-assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy "other

The fear of being self-assertive usually surfaces in women who have been trained to be good girls or dutiful daughters.

J'ai perdu assez de temps à me justifier, à vouloir convaincre, à tenter d'expliquer qui je suis et ce que je fais et pourquoi je le fais. Maintenant il faut agir. Et je me fous de ce qu'en pensent les autres.

Not all of the Greeks, but a large proportion of them, were passionate, unhappy, at war with themselves, driven along one road by the intellect and along another by the passions, with the imagination to conceive heaven and the wilful self-assertion that creates hell.

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world.

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

mauma had found the part of herself that refused to bow and scrape, and once you find that, you got trouble breathing on your neck.

My father says my mind is weak, and my tongue, weaker, she'd told me then. It seemed now her tongue was not weak, but the fiercest part of her.

The healing process kicks into gear with with the words This is what you did to me. That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a punch in the stomach. I deliberately removed the distancing veil of objectivity from the words This is what you did by adding 'to me'.

We embrace the word no because it allows us to exercise some control over our lives, whereas yes is simply an acquiescence.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Dzisiaj przysz?a mi do g?owy pewna my?l - tak jasna i oczywista! W pierwszej chwili wyda?a mi si? wr?cz niedorzeczna, wprawi?a mnie w oszo?omienie i wr?cz lekk? histeri? - Mog? zrobi? absolutnie wszystko i poza mn? sam? nie istnieje nic, co by mnie powstrzyma?o.

But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.